‘Corona won’t affect chickens’

Visakhapatnam: Chairman of Vizianagar Hatcheries Private Limited and veterinarian Gandhi Reddy said coronavirus would not infect poultry and people should not fear consumption of eggs and chicken. He also urged the public to not believe rumours on social media.

Addressing the media here on Friday, the chairman said the Centre had released a report that chicken consumption would not pose a threat. Adding that the poultry business has been affected by coronavirus, Gandhi Reddy said, “diseases are spreading on some poultry farms because vaccination programmes are not taken up on time. These diseases and corornavirus are different. Present weather conditions in the Telugu states will not give room for the spread of coronavirus.”